ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,649, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Radiation-curable organopolysiloxane composition and a release sheet" was invented by Kenji Tanaka (Annaka, Japan), Shunji Aoki (Annaka, Japan) and Ataru Kobayashi (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation-curable organopolysiloxane composition comprising the components (A), (B) and (C): (A) organopolysiloxane represented by the formula (1), wherein at least one of R1 is a (meth)acryloyl group-containing organic group, a is an integer of 2 or more, a, b, c and d satisfy an equation, 2less than equal toa+b+c+dless than equal to1,000, and a ra...